Lifelong football enjoyer here, but I can no longer stomach the NFL anymore. I realize the league is, and has always been, an entertainment business but they don’t even bother hiding the massaging anymore. They’re clearly feeling threatened by the fact that college football is more interesting now with the CFP and transfer portal, so they’re desperate for dramatic narratives. wilL iT BE A ThREEPeAT? wILL keLCe PrOposE to tayLOR SWIfT? dID wE MEnTIon TAyLOR swIFT iS HEre?
Anyways, good thing I got into rugby recently cuz it’s Six Nations time
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Yeah, that was another “they’re not even trying to hide it anymore” moment, considering they made that announcement right after Trump announced he would be at the game.
The wildest part of that press release was when the NFL spokesperson said that “Choose Love” was more fitting than “End Racism” because the country has been dealing with tragedies such as the LA fire and the DC plane crash. Like… how will choosing love prevent natural disasters and vehicle accidents?
I thought those were different at every stadium kinda like the helmet messages where they get picked by the player. Don’t the teams pick what is on the end zones? I have season tickets to the Bills and have never noticed the endzone message say stop racism I’ve never actually looked at the message so I don’t know exactly what it says but I think their message was always “Stop hate”
Nope. First time in at least 20 years that I’m skipping it. Sick of apparent officiating favoritism towards Kansas City, not happy with the decision to remove “End Racism” from the end zones, pissed that the orange turd’s going to be there, and I’m sickened by Kelce and Mahomes saying they’re honored to play in front of him.
Puppy Bowl is always a good alternative!
Nope.
Kinda done with football now given the overal fanbase around me are MAGA heavy.
Same! I was looking forward to seeing Kendrick Lamar perform the halftime show. But I will just look it up later on or tomorrow on YT. And fingers crossed that Donny gets booed by the crowd.
Not going to watch but I will be looking up highlight clips of the crowd booing Trump.
Def. gonna watch !superbowl@lemmy.world
Looks like there’s an !nfl@lemmy.world. I don’t know if there’s college football stuff, though. Don’t follow it myself.
looks at lemmyverse.net
There’s a !cfb@lemmy.world, but it’s not very active.
Ah. Apparently someone set up an sports-devoted instance, fanaticus.social, and it appears to have a !cfb@fanaticus.social, plus communities following various teams and such.
No superb owls to be seen on those at all, really
Not entirely true!
If you watch college basketball or football, we have the Temple Owls here in Philadelphia. They have some pretty badass logos too!
Maybe someone will make nocturnal_avians, a la /r/trees and /r/marijuana_enthusiasts or /r/worldnews and /r/anime_titties.
Fam we should totally post to !superbowl@lemmy.world during the game! I’m sure I can look up some owl art or something…
Nope. Honestly fuck the NFL.
God forbid people enjoy entertainment in their free time
sorry, i sometimes forget how sensitive sportsball fans are
Why don’t you cough up something you like so we can mock it for no reason
lol ok, video games and reading
but i think you’re mistakenly assuming that because you’re deeply concerned about having everyone’s approval for what you like, then everyone else must be too. i’m not.
Tempted to go to a sports bar to laugh at all the chuds that get mad each time Taylor Swift shows up on screen for 5 seconds.
No, the referees made bad calls in the semifinals, and so it feels like I’m watching a game that’s not about winners but about the organization’s picks.
I’m just here so I don’t get fined.
Do you have a comment on the Taylor Swift vs. Brent Farve situation?
Nope. Been a thoroughly dispiriting season for the Niners, and I have absolutely no wish to watch the Chiefs win yet again.
And that was before Trump, the End Racism thing and so on.
Also a Niners fan, yeah that was rough. I can’t help but feel like there’s something going on institutionally that’s causing all the injuries, like players are being pushed too hard in practice or players are being pressured to return from injuries too early or something. Just too many injuries in one season to chalk up to bad luck.
Yep. I mean a few years of going deep in the playoffs probably takes its toll, but still, it was ridiculous.
What really got me this year though was what seemed like an unbelievable amount of errors and stupid (and costly) penalties. I’ve not looked at the numbers to see if this is more than just my impression, but I feel like they shot themselves in the foot so many times, much more than the average.
Fingers crossed for a rested and healed team, and a good draft!
Never been a football fan. But I very much want to see the entire stadium call Drake a pedophile at halftime.
And they did
It was awesome
Usually I look forward to it and watch it every year. This year I have no desire to watch all the American patriotism that surrounds the game…
i love my Seahawks and I usually catch the Superbowl but IDGAF about the chiefs winning any more and the eagles are not exciting
the commercials are shit. the halftime show is shit
only the gathering matters
The halftime show at least.
I assure you the kitty halftime show of the puppy bowl will be better
This superbowl was awful honestly. Pregame performers were bad and had no energy, halftime show was awful to listen to if you didn’t know Kendrick’s music already, and the game was a beat down. The only saving grace was mahomes flopping on the big stage after everyone hyped that team up for the 3peat
I mean, how was the game? Surely you don’t watch it for the singers.
The game was extremely one-sided and the chiefs looked like what I expected. Strong defense, weak offense that couldn’t do anything against a better defense. But the entire year the announcers talked about how great mahomes was, and how they were going to just turn it up when it was superbowl time. That didn’t happen
